Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
Monday, December 23, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 52): Looking forward to 2014. Round-up of predictions.

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On UK newspapers, the apocalypse has been averted ( Guardian ) It's exactly four years since – at a heavyweight conference in eastern...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, N 50): Boundless reprieve, Tablet reading, Blackrock, IT Departments, Digital Film.

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Boundless an innovative textbook start-up announced yesterday that they have settled a law suit brought against them by several large pubish...
Monday, December 09, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 49): The pdf, French Publishing, Web News Traffic, MOOC Myths, Aftrica Reading

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Can Scholarly Publishing Evolve Beyond the PDF? From John Wiley. French authors can't get a break ( BBC ): "I often joke th...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 48): Amazon Drones, Digital Afterlife, PW Person of the Year + More

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Lots and hype and hyperbole about Amazon.com this week.   At least Scott Pelley at 60mins went right to the top and managed to keep his hand...
Monday, November 25, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 47): Pearson CEO Fallon, Amazon Storage Underground, Rough Trade, Maigret, USB, EdX & MIT + More

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John Fallon, CEO of Pearson plc was interviewed in London's Evening Standard last week. The new buzzword is efficacy: not just selling...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 45): End of Music Compilations? How Students Perform, Intel buys Kno, 60mins Debacle + more

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Now that's what I call pure proft.  There's still life in compliations: in a word curation.  ( NewStatesman ) The brand has also t...
Monday, November 04, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 44) Amazon Data Mining and new Literary Journal, McKinsey Business Strategy, Association Publishing + More

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Amazon mines data for the next hot hit ( WSJ) Amazon Studios ramped up in earnest this year when the pilots were posted online in April. ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 42): Writing for Free, Comic Sutra, Autobiographies + More

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Why writing for free is wrong ( The Atlantic ): But the fact that so many people write for free, all the time, sits uncomfortably with t...
Monday, October 21, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 42): Open Access Myths, eBooks and Tablets, China's Fake Research Industry, Brit Trade Invasion, + More

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Open Access expert Peter Suber writes in the Guardian:  Open access : six myths to put to rest Open access to academic research has neve...
Monday, October 14, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 41): Frankfurt Sessions, Libraries and Offsite Storage, State of Publishing from New Republic + More

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Publisher's Weekly round-up of some of the early educational sessions at Frankfurt last week including mine on responsive web design. (...
Monday, October 07, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 40): Open Access Publishing Scam?, US Panorama, Political Biographies, Expensive Journalism, 50 Shades +More

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Lots of discussion has been generated by the publication in Science magazine about journalist John Bohannon expose about open access journ...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 39) Debrett Manners, ALPSP Journals report, Textbook pricing, K-12 Education + More

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News that publisher Debretts is to offer the socially inept life skills for surviving in the modern office had more than a few recalling th...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 38): John D. MacDonald, Banned Books Reviews, Google & edX, Author Franchises + More

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Random House if bringing back a load of John D. MacDonald books. ( WSJ ) He had in fact a grand theme, which he nibbled at in book after b...